#Roush Review: ‘Ratched’ Feathers Its Cuckoo’s Nest With Lurid Nonsense

#Roush Review: ‘Ratched’ Feathers Its Cuckoo’s Nest With Lurid Nonsense

“#Roush Review: ‘Ratched’ Feathers Its Cuckoo’s Nest With Lurid Nonsense” A cuckoo’s nest would be child’s play to the lunatics running the asylum in Ratched, a lurid concoction of gruesomely campy Grand Guignol excess. Closer in tone to Ryan Murphy’s Nip/Tuck and American Horror Story than the Ken Kesey classic that inspired the Oscar-winning One Flew Over…

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#Roush Review: Seriocomic Confessions From 5 ‘Coastal Elites’

#Roush Review: Seriocomic Confessions From 5 ‘Coastal Elites’

“#Roush Review: Seriocomic Confessions From 5 ‘Coastal Elites’” There’s preaching to the converted — and then there’s ranting. Or, as a title card describes HBO’s Coastal Elites, an inspired quintet of mostly comic monologues by playwright and master satirist Paul Rudnick, “Desperate confessions from people barely coping with the new abnormal.” With a stellar cast of…

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#Roush Review: ‘Lovecraft Country,’ Where Racists Are the Real Monsters

#Roush Review: ‘Lovecraft Country,’ Where Racists Are the Real Monsters

“#Roush Review: ‘Lovecraft Country,’ Where Racists Are the Real Monsters” It’s hard to know what’s scarier: the grotesque monsters and spirits leaping from the pages of pulp and classic horror fiction, or the flesh-and-blood racist ogres of 1950s Jim Crow America, who also torment the heroes of Lovecraft Country, HBO’s latest stylish dive into supernatural allegory….

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